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If you were AB de Villiers, how would you go about trying to defend 191?

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If you were AB de Villiers, how would you go about trying to defend 191

AB does not have much to defend

Would you try something completely different and hope for the best like maybe opening the bowling with Tahir

Would you just play normal cricket and think about the next flight from London to Joburg

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Bowl them out? If they start having lot more fielders in deep they will win with singles. They need less fielder outside the circle all the time. Use all your best bowlers in the 40 overs. Don't worry about 5th bowler. If India bats 40 overs they would already be in winning position.
 
By taking wickets, there is no other way here.
 
Go with top 4 Bowlers strategy, you have to get them out or take more wickets in less than 40overs because if India didn't loose many wickets in 40 odd overs then they are going to win. Remember their batting line up is till no.10
 
Stop singles and build scoreboard pressure for the Indian batsmen to self destruct. AB has bowlers like Morkel, Tahir, Rabada and Morris who are more than capable of taking wickets.
 
I would think in my mind " i am a good captain, yes, i am a good captain" and then proceed to put trash captaincy up for display.
 
Stop singles and build scoreboard pressure for the Indian batsmen to self destruct. AB has bowlers like Morkel, Tahir, Rabada and Morris who are more than capable of taking wickets.
May be I am wrong buy I don't agree with you, as I said above there is no runrate pressure they have to go for wickets . Stopping singleps means nothing , I don't see require rpo going to 6 unless SA take I ndia 5 or 6 wickets very quickly.
 
Test match fields, bowl Tahir and Morkel in tandem for 8-10 overs.

Then see how it goes
 
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